442 THE PEAR. 



tic. Ripe middle of Au- 

 gust. An excellent little 

 pear, not quite equal to 

 the Seek el, but valuable 

 for its earliness. 



ROSTIEZER. 



A foreign variety which 

 is scarcely medium in size 

 and has not generally 

 much beauty of colour, 

 yet combines an assem- 

 blage of excellences that 

 places it in the rank be- 

 fore any other of its season. 

 It is healthy and vigorous 

 in its habit, an early and 

 most profuse bearer, and 

 in flavour is only equalled 

 by the Seckel, which ri- 

 pens six weeks later. Form 

 obovate-pyriform, some- 

 times turbinate. Skin dull 

 yellow green, mixed with 

 reddish-brown on the sun- 

 ny side. Stalk long and 

 slender, curved, and in- 

 serted with very little 

 depression. Calyx open, 

 persistent; basin small, and 

 corrugated. Flesh juicy, 

 melting, somewhat but- 

 tery, exceedingly sugary, 

 vinous, aromatic and plea- 

 santly perfumed. Middle 

 of August to middle of 

 September. The young 

 trees produce but few 

 shoots of strong growth, 

 and require severe shorten- 

 ing to bring them into a 

 fine symmetric form. 



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